Louisiana executed a man convicted of murder with nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, capping a raging legal battle that ended ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...

Jessie Hoffman, Jr. was pronounced dead around 6:50 p.m. Tuesday at the State Penitentiary at Angola, officials announced in ...

After weeks of legal maneuvers to delay Jessie Hoffman's execution, including a last-minute appeal denial from the U.S.

A prosecutor told jurors Jessie Hoffman had "ice water in his veins," but what's colder than keeping a man in a cage for ...

With Hoffman’s execution, Louisiana joins Alabama as the only other state in the U.S. to use the controversial gas method on ...

After spending 26 years on death row and 28 years after he murdered Molly Elliot, he became the first Louisiana inmate ...

Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed Tuesday evening that Louisiana had carried out the execution of death row inmate ...

"The United State Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has sided with Attorney General Liz Murrill’s Office in overturning ...

"Executing Jessie Hoffman is not justice in my name ... staff — particularly those who live and work in proximity to death row — grew increasingly dour as Hoffman's execution neared, according ...

marking the state’s first death row killing in 15 years — and the first time the lethal method was used in the Pelican State. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead at 6:50 p.m. after he ...